"Portal-Credo.ru" publishes a Russian translation of a letter from members of the American "Committee of Concerned Scientists" (Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc.) to the judge of the Tagansky Interdistrict Court N.G. Larina.

According to RIA "Press-Line" , in Krasnoyarsk, perhaps, a new holiday will be celebrated in July - the Orthodox holiday of the family. According to Deputy Mayor Vasily Kuimov, Archbishop Anthony of the Yenisei and Krasnoyarsk reacted favorably to this idea. It is assumed that on this day couples will gather on the Yenisei embankment. At the climax, each participant will light a candle. "This will be the first calm hearty holiday in Krasnoyarsk," said V. Kuimov.

On June 8, a press conference was held at which human rights activists and artists reiterated their support for the leadership of the A. Sakharov Museum. "It is fundamentally important for us to win this process. If we lose, it will become a precedent for further persecution for ideological reasons in post-Soviet Russia," L. Ponomarev said at a press conference. And L. Levinson said that if a guilty verdict is passed, it will be appealed in Strasbourg. According to L.

Vesti.Ru (with reference to Interfax) reports a pogrom organized on June 9 at one of the cemeteries in Barnaul. The vandals knocked down and broke several dozen tombstones, broke crosses, fences, tore off photographs of the dead. A fire was lit on two graves. Local teenagers aged 10, 13 and 14 are suspected of the crime. Sources Teenagers staged a pogrom at a cemetery in Barnaul // Vesti.Ru. 2004. June 9.

In the Vladimir region, a month has begun to combat drug addiction, organized jointly by the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the regional drug control service. Pupils of orphanages and boarding schools of the region, whom the initiators of the month intend to involve in the movement of "Orthodox Pathfinders", will take part in the action.

The authorities of Adygea announced their intention to deport Ramadan Tsey from the country, a repatriate from Kosovo who arrived in the republic in 1999 among several hundred Kosovo Circassians.